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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids (Orthoptera) » Long-horned Orthoptera (Ensifera) » Katydids, Camel Crickets, and relatives (Tettigoniidea) » Jerusalem Crickets (Stenopelmatidae) » Jerusalem Cricket (Ammopelmatus)
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Jerusalem cricket - Ammopelmatus
Copyright © 2005 Robyn Waayers

Jerusalem cricket - Ammopelmatus
Lake Hodges, Rancho Bernardo, San Diego County, California, USA
January 29, 2003
Size: body length 22 mm
I understand that there are a lot of different species of these guys so will not even guess! They are common under rocks and wandering on the ground after rain at Lake Hodges.
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Contributed by Robyn Waayers on 6 February, 2005 - 5:24pm
Last updated 19 December, 2005 - 1:11pm

Cricket?
I saw one of these unearthed at a construction site in Cornado, CA when I was a fifth grade kid...it looked tremendous, and at that time I had no idea that it was a cricket...I thought it was some type of larvae or monsterous spider...now I wish I had saved it. I am told these make fine 'pets'. In cricketdom, I think that this is second scariest in appearance...only the Australian Tree Weta is more ferocious in appearance with its huge head and jaws.
Fred
… Fred Berry, 25 February, 2008 - 5:29pm login or register to post comments

Stenopelmatus
Turns out there are over fifty species, nearly all of them awaiting formal description and names. Several are endemic (found only) to isolated dune systems in southern California.
… Eric R. Eaton, 7 February, 2005 - 11:33am login or register to post comments

 
Found in Washington
this fellow was found in Loomis, WA yesterday (10-15-11). No one I have talked with has ever seen one in my area. Loomis is located in northcentral WA, 18 miles from the Canadian border.
… Nita Keeling, 16 October, 2011 - 2:13pm login or register to post comments

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